I know I haven’t written the day three of my PEX yet. You know there was a celebration party at that night and we had a really good time there. Now I’m back and have more time to write about day three.
CTO Steve Herrod’s Keynote
This is the most important part of day three, followed by the celebration party:-). If you are interested in knowing what is happening in VMware R&D and what new products are coming from VMware, you don’t want to miss a single minute of Steve’s keynote. That is why I got there early and sat in the front. Read more »
Author: Steve Jin is the author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall), creator of VMware vSphere Java API. For future articles, please subscribe to RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
After my presentation yesterday, I had more time on the break-out sessions and self paced lab today.
Accelerate Your Services With VMware Services Automation Tools
This session is by Budianto Bong, VMware Sr. Product Manager. He demoed three tools from VMware PSO that help consulting partners: Migration Manager, Desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator, and HealthAnalyzer. The first one is not the P2V converter, but a management tool that tracks, manages, and reports large scale migration projects.
Using the VMware vSphere PowerCLI for Automated Installation And Configuration of ESXi and vCenter for ISV Partners
This is a joint presentation by VMware TAM Ken Brady, and CareFusion network engineer Fisk Shogren. Ken introduced the basics of PowerCLI and VMware TAP programs. Fish showed off his PowerShell code that is used to set up the environment, which took 2 days, if lucky, of manual work before. It’s a great example on how much you can get by automating vSphere API, particularly with PowerCLI. I handed over my business card so that Fisk can show more of his code later.
Getting Stoned With “Project Onyx” Read more »
Author: Steve Jin is the author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall), creator of VMware vSphere Java API. For future articles, please subscribe to RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
The day started with the keynote by Carl with lots of coverages on cloud computing and what that means for VMware partners. Backed by virtualization, cloud computing brings in efficiency, agility and freedom of choice to the cloud adopters. It’s interesting to see that even CostcoConnection has an article about “computing in the cloud.”
After the keynote, I went to the self paced lab and then the Exhibit Hall. That is the most fun part for me to be in a VMware conference. I can see how our partners use our technologies and product, how they use our SDKs/APIs, what more they want from us in terms of partner enablement. You don’t normally see so many demos in time and have deep conversations face to face. Read more »
Author: Steve Jin is the author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall), creator of VMware vSphere Java API. For future articles, please subscribe to RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
Besides the talks on VMware APIs, two self paced labs are there for you to try out the vSphere SDK and PowerShell at PEX. More details are quoted in later part.
As a bonus, you will get a chance to learn VI Java API in the SDK lab. Thanks to VMware TAM Alton Yu for making this happen! I will be there when I am not presenting my talk “Architecting Your Applications for VMware Cloud”, or helping on the BOF, genius bar, etc.
Note that pre-registration for Self-Paced Labs is not available. Lab attendance is on a first-come, first-served basis. Drop by to attend a lab in room Mandalay D. Lab hours are available in the onsite pocket guide.
SPLIBP1020 Intro to vSphere Web Services API (i.e. SDK)
This lab will provide training on how to integrate your products with VMware environment. Attendees will get an opportunity to try out the tools provided via vSphere Web Services SDK. These tools perform a variety of functions related to automation, integration, management and extension of VMware environments and virtual machines. Participants will have their choice of using Java or C#. You will walk away from the lab with a better understanding of vSphere, resources for using the SDK, and the essential skills for building the most common types of integrations. Exercises will cover a variety of scenarios such as examining VM attributes, performing the same task on many VMs at a time and triggering tasks based on policies. We will also touch upon performance enhancements and exporting data to enable this. This lab requires some basic programming experience, ideally in C# or Java.
SPLIV0002 Managing the vSphere Infrastructure with PowerShell
This lab will provide hands on training for scripting a VMware environment. The goal of this lab is to provide all the tools needed to automate, integrate, and extend vCenter for your environment. Participants will use the Microsoft PowerShell based PowerCLI for scripting Virtual Center and ESX.
Author: Steve Jin is the author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall), creator of VMware vSphere Java API. For future articles, please subscribe to RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
Many folks mentioned their presentations for VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas next month. Let me share mine here.
As you migth have guessed from the blog title, the presentation has a lot to do with both the cloud and application. My presentation title is “Architecting your applications for VMware Cloud.” I will discuss the challenges and opportunities the cloud brings in for application development, especially for the application architecture, and more importantly how to get it done.
There are basically two types of applications running within the cloud: applications in the cloud (AIC) and applications for the cloud (AFC).
For the legacy applications, you can easily convert them to virtual machines and run these virtual machines in any cloud. These applications are AICs. They do not take much advantage of the benefits of cloud infrastructure, but the benefits of virtualization.
For the new applications, you want to design them to leverage the cloud from ground up. These applications are then native cloud applications, or AFCs. To make this happen, there are certain guidelines and best practices you need to follow, and pitfalls and exceptions to watch out. I will discuss these in my presentation at PEX.
Although AFC is the direction to go, but it won’t happen over night. It takes time. As I can see, there will be an evolutionary process for enterprises to get there.
- AICs. This is a small step for virtualization, but a big step for cloud computing. It helps to not only protect your investments on the legacy applications, but also familiarize your IT team with the cloud environment.
- Mixed. As time goes, new applications for the cloud will be developed/purchased and deployed, and you will see more and more AFCs in enterprises.
- AFCs. In the end, AFC will graduately take over as the main stream. I don’t think there will be 100% AFCs in enterprises any time soon because certain AICs are not really worthwhile to be re-designed as AFCs due to limited ROI. But the majority of AFCs will happen in next major upgrade cycle.
My session is Feb 10 (Wednesday) 1:30PM. Look forward to meeting/seeing you there. If you will present a session in PEX, please feel free to post it in the comment.
Author: Steve Jin is the author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall), creator of VMware vSphere Java API. For future articles, please subscribe to RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
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